Room Cleaning, Sword Fighting

Cleaning my room really means unpacking from college, which I haven't done yet. I'm not a fan of organizing in general, so I've been putting this off as long as I could. It kept getting more and more daunting until at some point I can't quite identify, it became the goal of my summer--indeed, my life as it stands--to clean my room.

So I documented this journey as it came to pass.

Cleaning my room didn't provide as many adventures as I'd hope. I resigned myself to the miserable monotony of responsibility and adulthood. 

Then, while trying to identify a strange mesh cloth on the floor, this happened:

Or maybe I fell asleep. I'm not sure. Either way, that's as clean as my room got. I'm going to stick with the ninja-vs-rogue battle depicted here as my reasoning, but spending forty minutes trying to suspend two swords in midair might also have contributed.

I'm leaving them there.

What I'm Doing Instead of Comic-Con

I wanted to be at Comi-Con and could not. And my facebook feed is full of magical things that have been announced there. Joss Whedon is working on a television debut of Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, Doctor Who is doing an episode with dinosaurs, the cast of Firefly reunited for a panel, George R.R. Martin held a panel on Game of Thrones, Community released the season 3 gag reel, and cosplayers are romping around dressed as Finn and Fiona from Adventure Time. 

Since I can’t stop imagining how wonderful my life would be had I the funds to get to San Diego and attend Comic Con, I’ve made a to-do list for myself instead.

 

 

But mostly I'm looking at updates from Comic-Con.

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I’m so excited! A professional graphic artist named Dan Sullivan made an ad for the flaming blazer in my post on grown up things! It totally blew me away—makes me want to buy one now! Points if you catch the Adventure Time reference.

You can see some of his other art at his new blog Questlines IRL or his youtube account! 

In other news, I have a facebook page! There’s a link at the top side bar if you think this blog is cool. It will help contribute to my delusions of fame and glory. And don't you want more mentally unstable people in this world?

Treebeard Rap

Don't Wanna Grow Up

Dad suggested I replace my ringback tone--"Bravely Bold Sir Robin"--with a standard ring since I'm a grown up now and will have professionals calling me.

My heart broke. He was right, of course, and it made me realize a lot of my lifestyle has abruptly become inappropriate. Dying my hair blue, dressing up for Renaissance fairs, running everywhere barefoot, collecting silly sunglasses and hats--all staples of my existence! Grown ups don't do those things. And if I get a house and paint giant murals all over it, it won't look like a big girl house. It'll look like a playground.

I guess I thought when I was a grown up I wouldn't want to do those things anymore. Only all of a sudden I'm out of college and I didn't stop doodling brontosauri with wings farting rainbows, and all my other friends are wearing blazers. I don't even know what a blazer is--whenever I hear about one I imagine a jacket that's so sexy it's practically on fire. 

(I wasn't very popular in middle school, so this was kind of a big deal)

So I'm making this post to say this disturbs me and I'm sorry grown ups have to act all hoity toity to impress other grown ups. Maybe we can make a movement and appreciate one another's tattoos or video game tshirts and not worry about being all mature! Because I want to wear neon heels when I'm fifty and not be judged.